Benefit show for Debora Flores Narvaez set for Jan. 26 at Crown

By John Katsilometes

Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 | 3:48 p.m.

The Las Vegas entertainment community is honoring the late Debbie Flores Narvaez the best way it knows how:

By entertaining.

A benefit show featuring many of Narvaez’s friends and colleagues in Las Vegas production shows have organized a variety performance set for 11 p.m. Jan. 26 at Crown Theater and Nightclub at The Rio. Tickets are $5 and available at DebbieBenefit.com. The show is open to the public but restricted to those ages 21 and over.

A swing performer in several Las Vegas shows and also a dancer at Rain at the Palms, Narvaez was best known as a part-time performer in “Fantasy” at Luxor. On the night she was to debut a new segment with R&B artist Sisqo to his hit “Thong Song,” Narvaez went missing. On Jan. 8, her body was recovered in two tubs filled with concrete hidden in a house in downtown Las Vegas.

Narvaez’s ex-boyfriend, Jason “Blu” Griffith, a dancer in “Love” at The Mirage, has been charged with her murder. Narvaez was 31.

Funds from the Jan. 26 benefit will be donated to Shade Tree women’s shelter in Las Vegas and also be used to help Narvaez’s family afford the transport of her remains to her native Puerto Rico. On Monday, Celeste Flores Narvaez, Debbie Flores Narvaez’s older sister, said the family will hold a private funeral in Puerto Rico’s capital city of San Juan.

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